1915, Cast bronze, 46.7mm x 43.8mm, 23g, UNC, Ernsting WVZ 112, unrecorded variety.
Heart-form with convex obverse surface, and multi-staged edge. Concave reverse surface with multi-staged edge. Loop for suspension. Both sides have the image and script raised plastically.
OBVERSE: In the middle an oven with ruinous, yet smoking chimney; on the right a young female with long hair, holding a swaddled baby, to the left of her two children sitting on the oven’s edge, to her feet, right, a little girl and left, a cat arching its back. On the left, an old bearded man, a little child holding his left hand with both her hands. Signed in the exergue with an L G.
REVERSE: A long rectangular empty tablet, above a German pickelhaube, the chinstrap entwined with a wreath, a garland of leaves lying across the tablet’s corners. Inside the garland-semicircle: ANDENKEN A. - D.WELTKRIEG (In Memory of the World War).
Rarity: R-8
Known Examples: 2 (1 bronze, 1 iron, unchased)
Number in Museum Collections: 0
Number in Private Collections: 2
2 (bronze).
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B2 Brüssel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Albert I Penningkabinett (Royal Library).
D Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (State Art Collection).
H Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg Arts Center).
L1 Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich (Museum Morsbroich).
L2 London, British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals.
L3 London, Imperial War Museum.
R-6 Very Rare (13-30)
R-7 Extremely rare (4-12)
R-8 Unique or Nearly So (1- 3)
N New York, American Numismatic Society.
P Paris, Musée d’Historie Contemporaine (Museum of Contemporary History).
R Ramat Aviv, Kadman Numismatic Museum.
S Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum (Württemberg Regional Museum).
V Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Museum of Military History.
V2 Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum (Art History Museum).